The King will return to frontline public duties next week after Buckingham Palace announced that his doctors were “very encouraged” by the progress of his cancer treatment.
The King and Queen will visit a cancer treatment centre where they will meet medical specialists and patients in what will be his first full public engagement since his diagnosis was announced in February.
Buckingham Palace also confirmed that the state visit to Britain of the emperor and empress of Japan will go ahead at the end of June.
Buckingham Palace released this picture of the King and Queen, taken on April 10 in the palace gardens
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Charles and Camilla leave the London Clinic in January. The King was in hospital to receive treatment for an enlarged prostate
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While a palace spokesman stressed that the King’s treatment was not yet over and it was “too early to say” how long it would last, his “medical team are very encouraged by the progress made so far and
